You can wear Kim Kardashian’s booty, thanks to these artists

Want a butt like Kim Kardashian’s? Just slide it on!

Scandinavian conceptual artists Ida Jonsson, 22, and Simon Saarinen, 24, joined forces with Swedish trend designer Beate Karlsson, 24, to debut a risqué duplicate of Kardashian’s bodacious backside at New York Style 7 days.

The Scandi threesome unveiled their “The Bum” — Kim K-encouraged biker shorts designed from flexible silicone that functionality as shapewear — at an Elle magazine event very last week, then took it for a minimal catwalk outside the Rebecca Minkoff and Christopher John Rogers demonstrates at Spring Studios.

The haute heinie was boldly modeled by Karlsson herself, and styled with a crimson puffer jacket, denim tube top, open-toed thigh-higher boots and statement sunglasses.

Fashionistas and avenue-design photographers could not seem absent.

“You could see the confusion in people’s eyes,” Karlsson tells The Publish. “We ended up swiftly surrounded by a large team of paparazzi who required to choose images of ‘The Bum.’ ”

The trio — who are all New York-primarily based — began “The Bum” job two yrs in the past. Jonsson and Saarinen commenced by examining all the pictures and info they could discover on the net to make a photorealistic and real-to-scale three-D rendering of Kardashian’s unusual proportions, which Saarinen notes “have really altered a bit” due to the fact 2018.

Shortly just after, they enlisted Parsons and Central Saint Martins alum Karlsson to assist manifest a wearable model.

They’re in the method of perfecting the to start with 6-pound prototype, which is what they trotted out through Style 7 days and actions fifteen.three inches across and has a circumference of forty two inches.

The target is to make it as lightweight and comfortable as achievable in advance of offering it in minimal quantities later on this spring, and they are at present exploring manufacturing it in China, Portugal or even Brooklyn.

“We will possibly use a blend of silicone, spandex and microfiber, but we’ve not thoroughly resolved on how the merchandise will be materialized nonetheless,” says Karlsson.

Not incredibly, wanting like a curvy Kardashian comes at a really hefty selling price: The remaining layout will value concerning $450 and $600. Still, which is extra manageable than shelling out countless numbers for implants or injections.

“We’re living in a time in which folks are prepared to undertake significant and sometimes risky surgical procedures to make their butt seem like hers — all in the name of likes,” says Saarinen. “Her ass is possibly one particular of the most acknowledged and talked-about symbols born out of Instagram.”

But on Instagram, “The Bum” has occur beneath scrutiny, with some commenters contacting the piece “cultural appropriation.”

However, the Gen Z designers see their Kim-encouraged job as a commentary on the “hyperbolic social-media landscape, in which everyone’s battling to stand out,” says Jonsson.

“It’s our mission as artists and thinkers to concern — and sometimes highlight — the switching calls for that surround us in buy to start a dialogue,” says Karlsson.

Adds Jonsson: “It is just as much a celebration of a female who managed to make a multimillion-dollar brand primarily based on her butt.”